Rudolf Zintel: / /
Bryan Micon: / /
Alexander Kravchenko: / /
We caught up with the action on fifth street, where after a series of bets and raises, Kravchenko was all in and Micon only had 600 chips behind. Micon and Zintel both checked on sixth, and on seventh Zintel bet enough to put Micon all in. He called.
Zintel showed for a flush, and the only downcard we saw from Micon was the . Kravchenko mucked his hand so quickly after flashing his holdings, that we only caught the . Both players were eliminated, while Zintel rocketed up to 50,000 chips.
Catching the action on fifth street we found Adam Friedman betting into his opponent. Making the call, Friedman's opponent would call another 2,000-chip bet on sixth before Friedman checked seventh street dark.
Friedman: / /
Opponent: / /
Friedman tabled his for a pair of aces and his opponent mucked his hand.
As Friedman raked in the pot, his stack climbed into the six figures to see him sitting with 101,200 in chips.
Seiver was the only player to call Zintel's bet on fourth street over on Table 433 moments ago. Seiver then raised on fifth street when faced with another bet, Zintel called, and then check-called on sixth and seventh.
"Aces-up," Seiver said, revealing .
Zintel looked at his hand for more than 10 seconds, then send his three down cards spiraling into the muck.
The PokerNews crew is back to talk about all of the happenings at the World Series of Poker, the news of Mark Scheinberg's settlement with the DOJ, the premier of Bet Raise Fold, and Matthew Parvis tells a story of a charity poker tournament he played with Irv Gotti and Ja Rule of Murder Inc.
David Chiu completed and Chad Brown three-bet only to have Chiu come back over the top and make it 2,400. Brown called, and then called bets on fourth and fifth before raising all in for his last 2,000 on sixth with Chiu making the call.
Chiu: /
Brown: /
Chiu tabled his for aces-up to be ahead of Brown's for kings-up. Unfortunately for Brown, he could only find a on the river to be forced to the rail as Chiu collected the to eliminate Brown and move to 40,000 in chips.
David Bach had the bring-in and Perry Friedman completed all-in for his last 300. Dutch Boyd made it 600 and Bach made the call before calling on fourth and betting out on fifth and sixth. Boyd called each time before both players checked seventh.
Bach: / /
Friedman: / /
Boyd: / /
Boyd tabled his and captured the pot after Bach flashed the and Friedman just mucked.
Three players saw fourth street but it would be Adam Friedman raising an opponent's bet to push out Shawn Buchanan. Friedman's opponent made it three bets to go and Friedman just called before calling a bet on fifth. Both players checked sixth and seventh with each player's boards as follows.
Friedman: / /
Opponent: / /
Friedman announced two pair and tabled his / and after his opponent mucked his two pair with / , Friedman was stacking the pot to move to just on 65,000 in chips.
A major issue has developed here early in the Stud Championship with Ivan Schertzer playing the wrong seat and stack.
Schertzer was supposed to be seated on table 442 seat 3 actually took a seat on 432 seat 3. Two issues arose with this. Firstly that seat was actually the vacant seat of George Danzer, and when Schertzer sat down he started playing Dario Sammartino's stack (who had yet to arrive) who was located in seat 4.
Once Sammartino arrived, attention was brought to the Tournament Director on duty, but the major problem was that Schertzer had dwindled Sammartino's 20,600-starting stack down to 12,400. Tournament Director Charlie Ciresi decided that firstly Schertzer would be moved back to his original seat and have his stack reduced to what he roughly lost from Sammartino's stack.
Those chips were then added to Sammartino's stack to bring him up to approximately what he began the day with. However since that table had played roughly 9 hands and Sammartino was forced with a bring-in, he would forfeit chips amounting to 1,200 and the dealer would add 200 to each subsequent hand to balance out what was missing.
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and the 2013 World Series of Poker for Day 2 of Event 23: $2,500 Seven Card Stud.
Yesterday saw 246 players take to the felt to play in the only Stud event of the series; and consequently the Stud Championship for the year. Previous winners such as John Monnette, Bertrand Grospellier and Freddie Ellis all took a seat, but unfortunately one notable Stud lover was missing following the recent passing of Jerry Buss. However the WSOP did a great job of honoring the man that has been a constant here at the WSOP for many years.
Once the action kicked off, multiple bracelet winners, online gurus and cash game specialists all battled hard until just 106 players were left to bag and tag for the night. Although leading the field for the majority of the day, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo bracelet winner Adam Friedman (48,300) would be pipped in the final few hands by Kenn Wittock (48,900) as he claimed the chip leader.
Michael Mizrachi (36,000), Dario Alioto (35,100) and Rex Clickscales (33,400) round out the top ten while the likes of Mike Leah, Owais Ahmed, Scott Clements, John Monnette and Daniel Negreanu all survived the day.
Play is set to commence at 2:00 p.m. local time with the players aiming to survive into the money-paying top 32 before mounting a charge at claiming the Event 23 bracelet and $145,520 first prize. Make sure to stay tuned to PokerNews and our Live Reporting Team as we provide continuous live updates of all the Day 2 action.
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for a flush, and the only downcard we saw from Micon was the 
. Kravchenko mucked his hand so quickly after flashing his holdings, that we only caught the 
. Both players were eliminated, while Zintel rocketed up to 50,000 chips.
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on the river to be forced to the rail as Chiu collected the 
to eliminate Brown and move to 40,000 in chips.
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